bookreview
matze77
<p> Writing about: Third Edition , Language: English.<br>
I was a little reluctant cause i dont like this unrealistic approach in book titles like "being a guru in 2 hours".<br><br>
Surely you will probably need more than 24 hours to work through the book (without sleeping calculated) at least if you dont think you are a genius (but then you will probably learned all solely from manpages).<br><br>
I noticed that around 2-3 hours are needed for a chapter depending on the complexity.<br><br>
I like the book cause it has many coding examples which introduce new things btw that might be useful in that context e.g.: in reviewing the if statement rand is introduced. <br><br>
The structure is good it is not too technical it reads fluently.<br><br>
At the end of each chapter is a workshop section which contains some questions and tasks to control the learned.<br><br>
Compared to the Update: <strike>Camel</strike> Llama Book it was more useful at the first steps for me cause it has more a "practical, howto" character. The Llama book explains it all well but i miss some useful code snipets there that go beyond the surface.<br>
Personal Background: I am a beginner and got almost no programming experience (i did a little simple bash programming but never heard of scalars arrays e.g. before)<br><br>
I must admit that i only read<strike> 6 </strike> 8 chapters so far, but this already really helped me alot (i maybe adjust this with more learned)...
critic:<br><br>
<b>A drawback is that often i wanted to know more get more detailed code examples (This is the same with the Learning Perl Book from Oreilly) it is clearly a beginner book.</b>but there is e.g. in the file lesson you learn how to open a file and how to close it and how to print a line of the file but not how to change content of a file and write it. I am someone who should must nsee some practical examples how to use a language like perl cause there are so many possibilities i dont sometimes know how to put it all together...<br>
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<b>I <strike>strongly</strike> recommend this book for beginners and dont think the money wasted. But for real more detailed projects you will need other books, more knowledge than this book could provide ...</b><br><br><br>
What i like about the book:<br>
<b>The Tipp: Take a Project you learn fastet if you got a goal which you work for ... (as your own webserver with cgi e.g.)</b><br>
The code segments are well explained, like line 12 does this and maybe not that what you expected cause of ...
What i dont like:<br>
I wished more details as already mentioned, many times i caught myself thinking ah interesting, i want to read more, then i turn the pages and ups, the chapter is over. This book could have been really good without these flaws ...<br> My Opinion: If you get this book 2nd hand | cheap and your new to Perl it is worth the try ...<br>
btw: I like the <strike>camel</strike> Llama book too, ofc.
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Perl Book containing 24 lessons
A Good book for Beginners
978-0672327933